Troy: problem with Helen

MICHAEL SRAGOW, The Baltimore Sun
"[Orlando] Bloom is actually prettier than Kruger..."

TOM RYAN, The Age (Australia)
"Kruger is awful as the woman who launched a lot of CGI."

STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, Salon.com
"At this point you may be wondering, does ’Troy’ at least give us a believable Helen -- a woman whose face might, conceivably, have launched 1,000 ships? The answer is, unfortunately, no. With her sun-kissed, bland sweetness, Kruger is pretty enough in a Darien, Connecticut, kind of way -- not exactly Helen of Troy, but maybe Helen of Abercrombie & Fitch. (Think of her as the face that launched 1,000 golf carts.)"

GLENN WHIPP, L.A. Daily News:
"The thin-lipped blond Kruger looks more like Helen of Hunt than a woman whose face would launch a thousand ships."

STEPHEN HUNTER, Washington Post:
"Is this the face that launched a thousand ships? Opinions will vary, of course, but I’d rate hers as a 457-ship face."

TY BURR, Boston Globe:
"There is indeed a legendary beauty in "Troy" -- a face that brings the ancient world to its knees, a being whose grace is such that grown men feel stupid and ashamed in its presence. I speak, of course, of Brad Pitt. ... "Kruger as Helen? She’s lovely enough -- a face to launch, I don’t know, 274 ships -- although I kept forgetting she wasn’t Robin Wright Penn."

HANNAH MCGILL, The Herald (UK):
"Kruger’s bland, pinched-looking Helen can barely launch an audible sentence let alone a thousand ships."

DAVID EDELSTEIN, Slate.com:
"In truth, this Helen has a face that would launch maybe a hundred ships -- although if you throw in that lithe body and a favorable wind, you could bump the number up to 250."

RUSSELL BAILLIE, The New Zealand Herald:
"You can’t but help think the ship-to-face ratio of German model Diane Kruger as Helen is more in the high two-figure than four-figure range."

RICK GROEN, Globe & Mail (Canada):
"As launching pads go, I’d put her down for 10 or 12 at most."

MICK LASALLE, San Francisco Chronicle:
"The Helen of Troy we get here, as played by Diane Kruger, looks more like Helen of Troy, N.Y. -- a pretty girl who could easily launch a paddle boat, maybe, or a couple of canoes, but that’s about all."

BRUCE NEWMAN, San Jose Mercury News:
"It’s puzzling that they were willing to spend $200 million to make this movie, but wouldn’t pony up for an actress with a face actually worthy of launching a thousand ships. Kruger looks less like one of history’s great beauties than the third cheerleader from the left at a basketball game."


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